Matthew McLeod

Founded and operate a consultancy delivering bespoke software architecture, product development, and technical strategy for clients across sectors including healthcare, security, and communications

• NHLS: Designed and implemented a Lab Quality Management System for South Africa’s leading pathology network, reducing error rates and enabling nationwide compliance audits

• USAID / PEPFAR: Developed device policy enforcement and telemetry for embedded laptops used in HIV/AIDS clinics across Africa — improving field performance, reducing device loss, and supporting regulatory reporting

• Popcorn Training: Built a custom video-centric LMS to deliver and track security awareness programs, supporting enterprise compliance training across global organizations

• ez-chat: Provided architecture and development support for a B2B messaging startup, including identity, real-time messaging, and multi-tenant support

Lead a global engineering team to modernize the company’s technology stack post-acquisition. Focused on IoT, cloud-native services, and enterprise-grade IAM systems.

• Migrated legacy M&A systems into a unified Kubernetes-based microservices platform, which reduced infrastructure and maintenance costs by 60%

• Defined and enforced architectural standards across teams in 4+ countries, improving release velocity and reducing incident count

• Spearheaded development of a secure, multi-tenant IAM framework with MFA, FIDO2, OAuth2, OIDC, and SSO — enabling enterprise sales and compliance

• Implemented end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and IaC/gitops practices, improving deployment lead time from days to under 1 hour

• Facilitated cross-functional team training and legacy system onboarding to new platform standards

Led the design and implementation of a centralised intermediary master-data platform (GIS), enabling clean data exchange and interoperability across dozens of legacy and modern enterprise systems

• Designed and led development of GIS, the enterprise's canonical storage system for intermediary information

• Implemented the first complete CI/CD in the organisation

• Architected a master data management (MDM) solution for intermediary data used across financial, compliance, and sales systems

• Standardized and integrated canonical business data across 20+ heterogeneous systems, improving data integrity and enabling regulatory reporting, and reducing fraud

• Directed technical teams in the development of RESTful APIs and ETL pipelines to consolidate and expose canonical data to internal and third-party platforms

• Collaborated with business analysts and senior stakeholders to align data strategy with long-term enterprise architecture plans

Business Analysis requirements development for the University of the Western Cape's rewrite of their Marks Administration System

Responsible for architecture, requirements, specifications, and documentation, and system design and development. With a primary client of Vodacom (South Africa's largest telecom). We implemented a number of systems for WASPs (Wireless Application Service Providers), vendors, and Vodacom themselves.

• Fleet Telemetry - Designed a system for a trucking fleet provider that integrated road, terrain, and live vehicle telemetry, to provide maintenance pricing that varied by vehicle use

• TOMSA/TBCSA - Online prescences and intranets

• Vodacom - WASP extranet

Through ongoing projects, research, and learning, I'm working on the following areas:

• NixOS - For desktop, server, build server use - I'm currently running NixOS on all my machines

• Rust - I'm studying Rust at present, and am implementing some personal projects in it

• Discourse - I've taken a deep dive into the community software, and created some smaller plugins for our platform

• Bitcoin and Lightning Network payment systems

• ERPNext - Working to implement a complete CRM PaaS with ERPNext as a backend

• Astro - I've been reaching for Astro to build sites more and more often

• MedusaJS - A promising JS storefront

• Podman - replaced Docker for container management throughout my tooling

• Wayland - I'm experimenting with Hyprland, but daily-drive KDE Plasma on Wayland